Tolomato Cemetery Times

Just in time for the St Patrick’s season, we have an interesting glimpse of the Irish life of Fr. Felix Varela, for whom the Varela Chapel a...

Here are our Tolomato Docents posing after a record day. We had 611 visitors today!  The TCPA crew was exhausted by the time 3:00 pm rolled ...

While Tolomato Cemetery had served as an Indian mission in St. Augustine’s First Spanish Period (1565-1763), and probably did have burials i...

  Our humble, peaceful Varela Chapel was shown in a different light in 1853, the year of the death of Fr. Varela. We have been doing res...

The 18th century maps we call upon for much of our knowledge of the layout of St Augustine, including the location of the “ Pueblo de Indios...

Spending Christmas in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I came across an unexpected trace of St Augustine, or more properly, of Florida. As we all...

This year, thanks to a suggestion from TCPA member Buff Gordon, we decided to decorate for the holidays.  We went to a local Christmas ...